Re: [Rosegarden-devel] english.ly in LilyPond export?

[Heikki J. J. <hj...@gm...>]

2008/9/5 Shelagh Manton <she...@gm...>

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:00:01 -0400
> "D. Michael McIntyre" <ros...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 04 September 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote:
> >
> > > I meant to ask Heikki if the lilypond exporter includes the
> > > english.ly or indeed does it put in the proper *.ly file depending
> > > on the locale, or does it use the standard settings?
> >
> > No.  We've always used the standard Dutch (I think?) names.
> >
> > ceses ces c cis cisis
> >
> > Most people who use LilyPond do this as far as I've ever noticed, so
> > this idiom should be no problem for people who are somewhat familiar
> > with LilyPond.  I think it will be weird to non-LilyPond people no
> > matter what we do here though.  This solution is rather inelegant,
> > but like our other inelegant LilyPond hacks, it works.
> Great that clears things up, but also makes the explanation messier.
> Ah well. (insert ingratiating smiley face here)
>
> Moving along,
>
> Shelagh
>

In default settings notes are a,b,c,d,e,f,g. Sharps are given with +es and
flats with -is: beses, bes, b, bis, bisis.
I think these are the default settings in LilyPond, because the names are so
generic.

I agree that with chord names there could be more localized names.

Heikki